Minuscule 399 Explained

Minuscule 399 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε94 (von Soden),^[1] is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 9th or 10th century.^[2]

Description

The codex contains text of the four Gospels, on 214 parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, in 27 lines per page.^[2] It contains lectionary markings at the margin.^[3]

The texts of John 5:3.4 and Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) are marked by an obelus.

Text

The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden classified it to the textual family K¹. Aland placed it in Category V.^[4] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents textual family K^x in Luke 10 and Luke 20. In Luke 1 it has a mixture of the Byzantine text-families.^[5]

History

The manuscript is dated to the 9th or 10th century.^[2] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Gregory in 1908.

The manuscript is currently housed at the National Library of Russia (Gr. 220) in Saint Petersburg.^{[2] [6]}

Scholz's 399

The codex contains incomplete text of the Gospels: John, Luke, and Matthew, on 220 parchment leaves . The text is written in one column per page, in 22 lines per page. It contains prolegomena, the tables of the Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: κεφαλαια (tables of contents) before each Gospel, numbers of Verses, and a commentary (of John Chrysostom, in Luke of Bostra's).^[7]

The order of Gospels is the same as in codex 90.

It was examined and described by Giuseppe Passini (as 109).^[8] It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852),^[9] who slightly examined it. Fenton Hort saw it in 1864. C. R. Gregory saw it in 1886.^[7] In 1908 Gregory removed it from the list of the New Testament manuscript, because it is rather a commentary than text and sometimes without text.^[10]

The manuscript is currently housed at the Turin National University Library (C. II. 14) in Turin.^[11]

See also

• List of New Testament minuscules
• Biblical manuscript
• Textual criticism

Further reading

• Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung . 1908 . Leipzig . 1 . 62 .
• Kurt Treu, Die Griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR; eine systematische Auswertung des Texthandschriften in Leningrad, Moskau, Kiev, Odessa, Tbilisi und Erevan, T & U 90 (Berlin, 1966), pp. 88–90.

Notes and References

1. Book: Gregory, Caspar René. Caspar René Gregory. Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament. 1908. J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung. Leipzig. 62.
2. Book: Aland , K. . Kurt Aland . M. Welte . B. Köster . K. Junack . Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments . . 1994 . Berlin, New York . 70 . 3-11-011986-2 .
3. H. v. Soden, Die Schriften des Neues Testaments, p. 131.
4. Book: Aland , Kurt . Kurt Aland . Aland . Barbara . Barbara Aland . Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) . The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism . . 1995 . Grand Rapids . 139 . 978-0-8028-4098-1.
5. Book: Wisse , Frederik . The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke . . 1982 . Grand Rapids . 60 . 0-8028-1918-4 . registration .
6. Web site: Liste Handschriften. Institute for New Testament Textual Research. 7 April 2011. Münster.
7. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Textkritik des Neuen Testaments . Hinrichs . 1900 . Leipzig . 1 . 186 .
8. Giuseppe Pasino, Codices Manuscripti Bibliohecae Regii Taurinensis Athenaei, Turin 1742, Teil 2.
9. Book: Scrivener , Frederick Henry Ambrose . Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener . Edward Miller . . . 1894 . London . 4 . 1 . 225 .
10. Book: Gregory , Caspar René . Caspar René Gregory . Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament . J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung . 1908 . Leipzig . 1 . 62 .
11. http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/rech_manusc/resultManuscrit/filter_ville/336/filter_depot/609/filter_cote/C.%2BII.%2B14%2B%2528Pasini%2B109%2529 TORINO, BNU, C. II. 14 (Pasini 109)